San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-01-22
KING OF RAILWAYS.
GOULD AND PARTY VISIT SAN AN
TONIC TODAY.

GOULD AND PARTY VISIT SAN AN
TONIC TODAY.
A Ride Through the City TO Look at Us
Train Interviewed and What
He Thinks of Us-Where He
Has Gone.
Jay Gould and party arrived this
morning st $50 O'Clock. at the I. 4
g. N. passenger depot In his special
train and remained until 1890, when the
train left for Laredo.
The party 10 composed OF the head Of
floials OF the Gould railway system. and
is on tour OF inspection OF the seuth-
western branch Of the great Gould rail-
way system. They were at Dallas on
Thursday and = committee Of citizens
met the railroad magnate and escorted
him over the city. and heard him talk
OF Its future, Its future cotton factories
and manufactures, etc. They were at
Austin yesterday evening at 3 o'clock,
and Mr.. Gould drove through the city
until dark, when he returned to his car
and rode as far as Kyle, where the train
stopped for the night. Mr.. Gould and
party, passing the night on the train.
They made no further stop until they
reached San Antonio.
NO COMMITTEE OF CITIZENS
met Mr.. Gould at the depot, but a hack
was procured and the party drove TO the
city, through Commerce street. across
Alamo plaZa. out to Dignowity hill,
where they took a view Of the city from
that emInence. Returning, they drove
down Houston street to Soledad street,
across Main plaza and down South
Flores street to the Arkansas Pass rail-
way depot, and back again TO the Inter-
national depot, where they boarded the
train and left for Laredo.
THE PARTY
consisted Of Jay Gould, s. = II. Clark,
vice president and general manager; A.
l.. Hopkins, vice president; w. II. New
man, general traffic manager; WIN. Ker-
rigan, general superintendent; Major
Wathin, resident engineer, New York;
G. w. Hammond, superintendent of
telegraph lines; H. g. FlemmiHg. super
intendent Of |. & G. N. railway, and b
w. Mccullough, general passenger
agent.
The LIGHT reporter and others visited
the depot to see Mr.. Gould and
his elegant special train. lie
found the train beside the car sheds
In charge Of Mr.. Kerrigan, who showed
him through the train. The reporter
was somewhat disappointed at
MR.. GoULD's PRIVATE CAR,
the Convoy" No. lab, expecting to find
something above the common order.
The car, truly. Is comfortable, fitted up
with two sleeping compartments, one OF
which Is occupied by Mr.. Gould's body
servant, a colored,man. rhe rest of tn e
car is fitted up more like an office, and
table strewn with maps Of property of
the Missouri Pacific railway on Mill
creek, In st. Louis. map OF the Mis-
souri-PaCifiO and entire Gould system,
writing paper, pens, ink, telegraph dis
patches and blanks, ETC., and a silver
water pitcher also rested upon the table.
Plain black covered reclining chairs and
camp stools were scattered about. In
the rear end OF the car was the kitchen,
also in charge Of colored man.
The next car to the Gould car was
General Manager
CLARK's CAR,
numbered |, but with no name. This
car was lifted with large plate glass
front and side windows, and was finer
than the Gould car. In fact all the cars
on the special, except the baggage car,
were finer than the presidents. Mr..
Clark's car was also fitted up with easy
chairs, stools, tables, Uttered with writ.
ing materials, etc. General Superinten-
dent
RERRIGAN's CAR
Was next, fitted in like manner as
Clark's, except with the addition of a
Typewriter, sitting on a table, bearing
evidence Of great usage. Next to Kerri-
gan's car came the baggage car. The
conductor in charge OF the train was
MIR. James Hooten. Engineer, Nike
Theele, engine No. PSI. The engine was
changed at San Antonio, No 7S4 taking
the train on to Laredo, where the party
will make a short stop and probably
cross into Mexico, returning through san
Antonio tonight.
After the reporters had gone through
the cars, which they were politely al
lowed to do by the cOlored porters and
Mr. Kerrigan, though no other visitors
were allowed, they again stopped in the
Gould car. long enough to see the rail :
way guide, Texas Siftings, and othe I
papers lying around, and were givena
RIDE ON GOULD's CAR,
From the car sheds to the opening OF
the long switch, half a mile from the
depot, the train being taken out prepar-
atOry to leaving, Alighting at the depot
Mr.. Gould and party were met and tn e
Express, Times and LIGHT reporters
froze onto the railway king like they had
met an old college chum.
INTERVIEWED.
Mr.. Gould greeted them and when
they stated they were Newspaper re-
porters, he smiled but said nothing,
apparently awaiting to draw the
enemy's fire. He was asked about his
visit. He said 1t was merely tour of
general inspection. How he liked
Texas? The state was improving and
his railways In the state were In good
condition. How he liked San Antonio?
He liked the city, though 1t was greatly
improved since he was here before 1.-TWO
years ago). He was asked about the
Gath interview, in which he was repre-
sented as saying Dallas was the town of
the state? He did not repudiate the as
sertion, but said there was room enough
In Texas for several big cities. The az
itatioD about the Interstate commerce
bill had not affected traffic on his lines.
He then had reached his car, and
bidding the reporters goodbye, he step
ped aboard and the train steamed of.
TO gentleman of this city, who
knew him in New York. Mr.
Gould stated that he was delighted
with San Antonio and the climate OF
Texas Thought San Antonio good
point for n health resort and that there
onght to be fine hotel built here.